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Mobile CMS Screen Shots of Wordpress on iPhone 5s
Last updated by justinpotts on Fri, 2013-11-22 22:39
The following screenshots are from the Wordpress app on the iPhone 5s. I only have good things to say about this app. All descriptions of photos will be under the picture.
This is the page after you login. Very simple, self-explanatory, and the design is really nice.
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Findings from D8 UX study: Moving between site and admin interface (overlay alternative)
Background
For this study, wanted to learn how well content editors could move between admin and non-admin pages, using the patch proposed in Issue #787896, an alternative to Overlay. We recruited 7 participants with experience building or managing content in CMSs. Their Drupal experience ranged from none to many years, but all of them were satisfied, neutral or unaware about the Overlay (that is, none of the participants were dissatisfied with it).
Executive summary
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Sidelook to the Typo3-Future: uxvision-for-the-next-typo3-cms
Just got a Slideshare-Message with that one:
UX-Vision for the next TYPO3 CMS from Jens Hoffmann
It´s worth to have a look.
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Why admin menu module is still not included in the Drupal core?
I found and loved admin menu module during Drupal 6 ages.
This module became so popular and I was sure that it will be included in Drupal 7 core.
The main strong point of admin menu that we can open any level of Drupal admin in one click.
But now I can see that admin menu is not even in Drupal 8 core.
Why?
https://drupal.org/project/usage/admin_menu
I'm sure that it is sufficient reason to include it in Drupal core.
Thoughts?
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Seven Style Guide update
A few months ago in February we proposed a style guide for the Seven theme, we are now well underway. This is a recap and look ahead.
The objectives of the Style Guide are:
- Identify Drupal core values that we can use to determine the look & feel for the Seven theme.
- Unify the visual language in Seven and ensure the overall look-and-feel supports the core values.
- Identify the visual and UI patterns used by Drupal core so that they form a conscious, shared language for us to built upon.
D8 UX study: Moving between site and admin interface (overlay alternative)
We are planning to run a usability study with 12 participants on Drupal 8 based on the issue #787896 Add a link so that administrators can return to their most recently visited non-admin page. The Drupal 8 will be a default installation, with the addition of the patch posted in comment #64, and some basic content to give the participant something to work with.
In particular, we want to learn from three types of people (content editors that use Overlay, site builders that use Overlay, content creators without Drupal experience):
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Need your help: BadCamp UX/ UI Summit 2013 on October 25, Friday
Hello everyone,
The UX/UI Summit at BadCamp is back again for it's second year. And boy, are we excited or what! This year's summit is going to feature two tracks: 2 workshops and 5 sessions with the goal to educate the community in the matters of UX (note: accessibility is also a part of UX!) More information: http://2013.badcamp.net/events/drupal-ui-ux-summit
If you are planning to attend BadCamp, we would strongly encourage to attend the event.
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Building landing pages for Drupal.org
This is the plan for building audience-specific landing pages on drupal.org. Calling all user researchers and content specialist: help us help site builders find their thing on drupal.org. Start with your thoughts on the approach outlined here.
Summary
The current structure and sheer amount of pages on drupal.org make it hard for people to find the specific information they are looking for.
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We want to build audience specific landing pages on drupal.org. The first one is for site builders. These people are having a hard time getting started, finding the right modules, learning how to use them etc.
To find out what content is needed to provide a sensible starting point for site builders, we need to find out what site builder needs are. So lets research those goals and needs first.
Rough timebox: september 2013
Outcomes
- Pragmatic persona: simple profiles of beginner, intermediate & advanced site builder
A proper UX strategy
What's your idea?
The community is doing an amazing work maintaining, improving and adding to the *.d.o infrastructure. But it is very much feature focused and where features often are looked at and implemented in isolation and from a technical point of view.
*.d.o has, according to https://drupal.org/home, a cool million users. To provide a great UX for all of them and where they can focus on getting things done is without a doubt a challenge. A challenge I feel isn't really being taken completely serious.
Read moreDrupal 8 Content Experience: Accessibility Findings
Drupal 8 Content Experience: Accessibility Findings
Goal
To conduct accessibility evaluation of Drupal 8 focussed on the content authoring experience (create content and edit content)
Methodology
The study was conducted in July 2013 in two phases:
Phase 1: Evaluation with volunteer Drupal users with accessibility needs. The participants were given the testing script with scenario and were asked to report their feedback
Phase 2: Conduct 3-participant moderated usability study consistent with the testing script (mentioned above).
Drupal UX BoF at Capital Camp 2013: Notes
Drupal UX BoF at CapitalCamp 2013
Attendee positives:
- Drupal is getting better for marketers, content editors
- Inline editing is great!
- Style guide is good.
Attendee pain points:
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Disabling the Google Translate "better translation" popup
I am working on a site in Portuguese and using Google Translate since I don't know Portuguese.
The problem is the annoying popup that appears when hovering over a link in the Admin Menu bar that covers the menu.
I found and posted a solution here http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/8oA_K-KpcqA/AKjfNu2XU4EJ using the Adblock Plus extension for Chrome with a custom filter that blocks the popup
The custom filter is "##div#goog-gt-tt"
Hope this helps
Read moreUX happy hour, July 8: Testing, testing
Another weekly checkin about what's up in Drupal UX. Join us in IRC.
Topics:
- We'll have made some progress on the admin IA study plan
- Improve Drupal 8 user interface texts
Anything you would like to discuss? Let us know in the comments!
Read moreImprove Drupal 8 user interface texts
With APIs as good as frozen, it's time to take a step back and get an idea of what's all been added to Drupal core. The capabilities are there, now to expose and communicate them so that people understand what's going on and apply it to what they want to achieve.
To most people the user interface is the application. All the machinery under the hood is taken for granted. It's easy to lose sight of this, but very important to keep in mind.
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Join us in IRC to review last weeks work and plan for what to do next.
With the Drupal 8 APIs (as good as) frozen, it's now time to clean up and clear up. Many new capabilities landed in core, now to shape the user interface in ways that help people understand and use them.
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Comparative Multilingual Content Edit Experience Study
Focus of the study: To get answers to the following high-level questions:
- How do users current translate content on Drupal?
- How do users translate content on current Drupal 8 and current Spark translation feature?
- Which version do the users prefer? Why?
Number of participants: 3 (Acquia Internal), 3 (Partners/ Customers)
Participant profile:
- Participants who create/ translate multilingual content or have a need to do so in the near future
- Participants have not used the current Drupal 8 and Spark translation feature
Study Date: June 25-26, 2013
Recruitment: Participants were recruited through internal e-mail and Acquia Sales contacts
Compensation: No compensation was provided to the users
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Drupal 8 Toolbar and Admin Information Architecture research study: your input needed!
I plan to run a Drupal 8 Toolbar and Admin Information Architecture research study, to inform any improvements to the current Drupal 8 admin IA. The target participant is a site builder and/or heavy content creator.
But first, what questions do you (or people you work with) want to know about the current IA? How people are using? When they are using? From what devices? Etc etc.
Put all your questions you'd like to answered by this study in the comments below. If there are duplicate questions, great! That will help inform priorities.
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